It’s too bad Shakespeare isn’t around so he could write, “The Tragedy of Tom McClintock.” Tom is one of the most decent, principled people you’ll ever meet. He understands more about the state budget than anybody and for 25 years in the Legislature has tried to put the state on financial footing, only to be called an “extremist,” as Garamendi did in the Lt. Gov.’s race just over. Yet McClintock always is proven right in the end.

Now he just lost his third statewide race, again by a close margin. No doubt it’s his last statewide race. He’s term-limited out of the Senate in 2 years, and already was term-limited out of the Assembly. All he has done is try to help California, and all California has done is kick him off a cliff.

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